Our Prep and Upper boys are celebrating after achieving a remarkable 85 top three places in this year’s Bedfordshire Festival of Speech, Drama and Music.
We are also delighted to say that Charlie Eggleton, William Roberts, Dylan Swain and Jonathan Hosking performed at the Gala Concert on the final night of the festival. To be selected from the thousands of entrants who took part in the festival is a great achievement and honour. Our congratulations go to them and every boy, whether a prize winner or not, who took part in the festival – it takes great courage to stand on the stage and perform, and every boy was a credit to the school. However, special congratulations must go to Jonathan Hosking who walked away with the very top prize at the festival. You can read about his remarkable success here.
| Category | Year Group | Place | Boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any bowed instrument | Grade 8 and above | 2nd place | James Watson |
| Brass Solo | Grade 8 and above | 1st Place | Henry Poppleton |
| Chamber Music Ensemble | 1st | Bedford School Wind Quintet | |
| Chorister | Y9 or Under | 1st | Harry Townsend |
| Chorister | Y9 or Under | 2nd | Fraser Morgan |
| Creative Drama | Y4-Y7 | 2nd | David Wiltshire, Michael Moretto, Brooklyn Fu |
| Creative Drama | Y4-Y7 | 3rd | Orion Verle, Alastair Tierney, Isaac Vincent-Emery & Tom Gray |
| Creative Drama | Y4-Y7 | 3rd | Monty Lomax, Sam Yeomans, Thomas Dewe & Harry Burns |
| Creative Drama | Y8-Y10 | 3rd | Leo Butler, Tom Ferrari, Tim Karunakaran, William Ngan, Hasan Manji |
| Dramatic Scene | Y5-Y7 | 2nd | Clement Rahwangi-Gough, Finlay Adams, William Gallaghar, Ethan Summers |
| Dramatic Scene | Y8-Y10 | 3rd | Harry Payne, Will Trobe & Jamie Welch |
| Dramatic Scene | Y8-Y10 | 3rd | Jacob Foster, Jack Aldridge & Aiden Ainsworth-Cave |
| Dramatic Solo | Y7-Y8 | 1st | Arthur Proctor |
| Dramatic Solo | Y7-Y8 | 2nd | Arthur Polhill |
| Dramatic Solo | Y7-Y8 | 3rd | Olly Wright |
| Dramatic Solo | Y7-Y8 | 3rd | James Keylock |
| Duologue | Y5-Y6 | 2nd | Elio Lepore & Ruairi Cassell |
| Duologue | Y7-Y8 | 3rd | Alfie Gittens & Esam Janahi |
| Group Poem | Y7-Y8 | 3rd | Aaron Berman, Kurtish Mistry, Jack Harte & Alexander Hall |
| Monologues | Y5-Y6 | 1st | Sam Deardon |
| Monologues | Y5-Y6 | 3rd | Elio Lepore |
| Monologues | Y5-Y6 | HC | Ruairi Cassell |
| Musical Theatre | Y6-Y7 | 1st | Michael Robertson |
| Musical Theatre | Y8-Y9 | 1st | William Roberts |
| Oratorio | 16 years and over | 1st | Benjamin Watson |
| Piano Solo | Grade 6 | 2nd | Korede Alagabe |
| Prepared Reading | Y3 | 2nd | Lucas Hill |
| Prepared Reading | Y3 | 3rd | Sebastian Pointer |
| Prepared Reading | Y4 | 3rd | Ethan Daubney |
| Prepared Reading | Y4 | 3rd | Sammy Hughes |
| Prepared Reading | Y6 | 3rd | Jonathan Hall |
| Prepared Reading | Y7 | 1st | Clement Rahwangi-Gough |
| Prepared Reading | Y8 | 1st | William Trobe |
| Presentation | Y7-Y8 | 2nd | William Ngan |
| Solo or Duet Singing | Y5 | 1st | Aryan Sohanpal |
| Solo or Duet Singing - Girls & Boys (voices broken) | Y10 | 1st | Dylan Swain |
| Solo or Duet Singing - Girls & Boys (voices broken) | Y9 | 1st | Wilfred Barker |
| Solo or Duet Singing - Trebles (boys' voices unbroken) | Y7 and over | 1st | William Roberts |
| Solo or Duet Singing - Trebles (boys' voices, unbroken) | Y7 and over | 3rd place | Pui Lam Ng |
| Versatility Class | Piano & Oboe | 1st | Jonathan Blake |
| Verse Duet | Y5 | 1st | Prejeev Suhitharan & Leo Mathew |
| Verse Solo | Y3 | 1st | Lucas Hill |
| Verse Solo | Y4 | 1st | Sammy Hughes |
| Verse Solo | Y4 | 3rd | Aryan Nair |
| Verse Solo | Y4 | 3rd | Isaac Vincent-Emery |
| Verse Solo | Y4 | 3rd | Freddie Barnes |
| Verse Solo | Y5 | 1st | Prejeev Suhitharan |
| Verse Solo | Y5 | 1st | Ayran Sohanpal |
| Verse Solo | Y5 | 2nd | Leo Mathew |
| Verse Solo | Y5 | 2nd | Jonathan Hall |
| Verse Solo | Y5 | 3rd | Alfred Williams |
| Verse Solo | Y5 | 3rd | Freddie Bowis |
| Verse Solo | Y5 | 3rd | Stanley Breed |
| Verse Solo | Y6 | 2nd | James Pinkney |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 2nd | Tanay Rai |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 2nd | Michael Robertson |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 2nd | Robert Wells |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 2nd | Arthur Proctor |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 2nd | Harry Clifton |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 3rd | Will Hayward |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 3rd | Shayen Patel |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 3rd | Tobi Akinola |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 3rd | Edward Dagg |
| Verse Solo | Y7 | 1st | Charlie Eggleton |
| Verse Solo | Y8 | 2nd | Jack Harte |
| Verse Solo | Y8 | 3rd | Alex Hall |
| Verse Solo | Y8 | 3rd | Aaron Berman |
| Woodwind Solo | Grade 2 | 2nd | Tom Cameron-Fraser |
| Woodwind Solo | Grade 2 | 3rd place | Leo Mathew |
| Woodwind Solo | Grade 4 | 3rd place | Merlin Toms |
| Woodwind Solo | Grade 5 | 1st | Hugo Hodgson |
| Woodwind Solo | Grade 5 | 2nd | Christopher Sporton |
| Woodwind Solo | Grade 7 | 2nd place | Oscar Calvert |
| Write & Read a Story | Y3-Y4 | 1st | Oliver Barbour |
| Write & Read a Story | Y3-Y4 | 2nd | Cayo Sinclair |
| Write & Read a Story | Y3-Y4 | 3rd | Hugo Morgan |
| Write & Read a Story | Y3-Y4 | 3rd | Adam Purdie |
| Write & Read a Story | Y5 -Y6 | 3rd | Ben Rioch |
| Write & Read a Story | Y5 -Y6 | 3rd | Sam Gray |
| Write & Read a Story | Y5-Y6 | 2nd | Fraser Morgan |
| Write & Read a Story | Y5-Y6 | 3rd | Aryan Sohanpal |
| Write & Read Own Poem | Y4-Y6 | 3rd | Nirmay Patel |
| Write & Read Own Poem | Y7-Y8 | 2nd | Akshat Buddineni |